Job Success and Personality Types
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What Job Is Best for Whom?
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There’s lots known about what predicts success in different domains across the lifespan.
The first question is—if you’re trying to analyze something like business success or productive success—what are the proper domains of category? So if you’re trying to categorize jobs, for example, the simplest conceptual scheme that’s practical is like a two-by-two matrix. There are simple jobs and complex jobs: that’s the first thing that’s worth knowing, and it’s a continuum. A simple job is one where, once you’re trained, you just repeat what you’re doing. So factory linework would be an example of that. Or checking out people at a grocery store. Or restocking grocery shelves...
For simple jobs, IQ (intelligence) predicts how fast you learn the job but not how well you do it once you learn it. And what predicts that is conscientiousness. So basically, if you’re hiring people, you want conscientious people—that’s the most important thing—and then the second most important thing is that you want people who are relatively low in trait neuroticism, which is a negative emotional dimension, because they’re less likely to be absentee, and so forth.
A complex job is one where the demands change on a regular basis. And so most managerial/administrative positions are complex jobs. Because you can’t learn the job once and for all. So the best predictor for complex jobs is IQ, and the second is conscientiousness. And IQ is about 3 times more powerful than conscientiousness as a predictor.
So that’s the first category: simple vs. complex.
The second category scheme would be something like managerial/administrative versus entrepreneurial. And the entrepreneurial types, actually, they’re over with the artists. So the best predictor for entrepreneurial success is IQ, but second is trait openness, which is the creativity dimension...
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